Comics Changes

June 18, 1995

The new and offbeat comic strip "Rhymes With Orange" by Hilary Price starts tomorrow in the Daily Press. The strip, which will run Monday through Saturday in the LifeStyles section, portrays familiar snapshots of everyday life such as the travails of a corporate underling and female rites of passage ("first bra, first Diet Coke").

* If you're reading this sentence and feel bored because it's too easy to understand, you'll probably enjoy the mental challenge of solving the new word-puzzle "Cryptograph." The puzzle, which starts tomorrow, features a sketch of a famous contemporary or historical figure with a quotation written in an alphabet in which each letter stands for another letter. Beneath it all, upside down, lies the answer - in the standard alphabet. This kind of brain-teasing system of communication is called cryptography, and is the joyful obsession of the creators of "Cryptograph," Bob Johnson and Mary Margolies. "Cyrptograph" will appear Monday through Saturday in LifeStyles.